Reimnitz interviewed by BBC world service radio
Representatives from universities that experienced scares or alerts Tuesday and Wednesday were interviewed live on BBC world service radio Friday.
The students were asked what happened at their respective campus the day after the Virginia Tech shooting and their thoughts on how each incidence was handled.
The radio service in London had William Glynn, a student from the Virginia Tech radio station, host the interview.
Josh Reimnitz, a junior in mass communication, went on the air at 2 p.m.
“I was told around 160 million people would be listening to this program,” Reimnitz said.
Max Page represented the University of Minnesota.
A bomb threat was found Wednesday at the university, and eight buildings were evacuated and closed for the rest of the day.
The University of Oklahoma went on lockdown after a man was spotted on campus holding an object that looked like a gun.
Ashiq Zaman, opinion editor for the Oklahoma Daily student newspaper, represented their school.
Phillip Jones, a communication major from the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, represented the fourth school that had a bomb threat phoned in Tuesday.
“It was made towards the engineering building,” Jones said. “(The building) was evacuated, and the bomb squad investigated. They brought sniffer dogs that went through the buildings, too.”
Topics dealing with adequate procedures and safety precautions were discussed in the interview.
“One thing we discussed was safety in the Fargodome and how an emergency situation may be handled in a place like this,” Reimnitz said.
The interview can be heard on the World Service at www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/index.shtml.
“This was quite an opportunity to be able to talk among students from other schools who had scares and alerts like us,” Reimnitz said.